Fun fact: I officially (whatever that meant) opened this site eight years ago today. December 14th, 2001. I can’t believe I still have it. It’s gone through a lot of changes, of course, and *starsparkle* became Star-Sparkle.net, which became KirstieJ.com that’s not-so-secretly still hosted on star-sparkle.net, but, yep, here we are still today. How cute. Considering this site came pretty late in my web design years, dang, I’ve been doing this for a hella long time (oh lord, did I just use the word “hella”?).

The exciting “blog entry” I wrote that day was:
muahahahaha! after about 2 years, ive finally completed my site (although i have only been working on this for about 3 days) like the layout? fill out some forms. more sections soon.

What a riveting first entry that was. I guess I referred to it as a “weblog” back then. How old school of me. And every entry is incredibly cringeworthy.

I’m also laughing at my pathetic attempt to make money by selling ad space on my website. But I was in my PayPal account the other day for the first time in years, and it looks like I made like $8 off of it, so that’s not bad considering I had no other source of income at the time.

Since I don’t actually use this blog for much other than reminiscing about my Geocities days, I’ll say goodbye now. Happy birthday, *starsparkle*! May you and your tacky, asterisky name have a fantastic day.